In my experience, it's a matter of how cross controlled you have the
airplane. If it's being done for landing, one uses the yoke to keep
the airplane in line with the centerline of the runway and the rudder
to keep its axis in line with that same centerline. In a sideslip for
altitude loss, one isn't concerned about that -- you want to present
the side of the airplane to the wind, making it areodynamically dirty.

If you had some sort of monitor on the contols and reviewed their
position after the flight you'd have a hard time telling the
difference, unless you noted the controls were a lot more active if it
was for a cross wind landing.



On Mar 5, 8:20 am, Jose wrote:
The difference is that when the longitudinal axis of the airplane is not
lined up with the runway centerline (forward slip), there is much more
drag.

This is true of a side slip too. I suppose if you want to lose
altitude, you cross your controls more, but again, the =airplane=
doesn't see the runway, so the =airplane= can't tell the difference.
It's just cross controlled.

The only difference between the two slips is what you are looking at out
the window.

Jose
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